The supreme beauty of Greek art is rather male than female

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"The supreme beauty of Greek art is rather male than female" is a dictum by John Addington Symonds recorded in A Problem in Greek Ethics.

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-:"The following passage may be extracted from a letter of [[Winckelmann]] (see [[Pater]]'s ''[[Studies in the History of the Renaissance]]'', p. 162): "As it is confessedly the beauty of man which is to be conceived under one general idea, so I have noticed that those who are observant of beauty only in women, and are moved little or not at all by the beauty of men, seldom have an impartial, vital, inborn instinct for beauty in art. To such persons the beauty of Greek art will ever seem wanting, because its supreme beauty is rather male than female." To this I think we ought to add that, while it is true that "[[the supreme beauty of Greek art is rather male than female]]," this is due not so much to any passion of the Greeks for male beauty as to the fact that the male body exhibits a higher organisation of the human form than the female." --''[[A Problem in Greek Ethics]]'' by [[John Addington Symonds]]
+"[[The supreme beauty of Greek art is rather male than female]]" is a dictum by [[John Addington Symonds]] recorded in ''[[A Problem in Greek Ethics]]''.
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 *[[Male nude]]